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1,000s of maitime companies employ 10s of 1,000s of staff with an annual turnover of £2.5bns+ / 15% of the Merseyside economy. The Super Port of Liverpool is expanding & with 150,000 ship movements a year, the River Mersey is the UK’s 3rd busiest estuary.

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The Merseyrail network runs 700 services a day, the most intense of any in the UK apart from London Underground.

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Unless there is a Merseyrail link and non-stop fast access from the centre directly into the JLA terminal building, like at Gatwick, then this Parkway hub falls way short at addressing key points of rail transport in the Mersey area.

John,

There is to be the `Allerton Arrow` from Liverpool Limes Street direct to LSP.

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1,000s of maitime companies employ 10s of 1,000s of staff with an annual turnover of £2.5bns+ / 15% of the Merseyside economy. The Super Port of Liverpool is expanding & with 150,000 ship movements a year, the River Mersey is the UK’s 3rd busiest estuary.

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THE Port of Liverpool has welcomed the first ships of two new deep sea container services launched by four of the world's largest container shipping operators.

The weekly services by Mediterranean Shipping Company and Maersk Line to Canada and by CMA CGM and China Shipping Container Lines to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, consolidate Liverpool's position as the major UK port for container trade with North America.

The new North Atlantic links also promise to further enhance Liverpool's container volumes which rose by 10,000 teus in 2005 to a record 626,000 teus and contributed to the growth of more than 1.5m tonnes in the Port's total cargo volume to 33.8m tonnes compared with 32.2m tonnes in 2004.

MSC and Maersk launched their weekly sailing from the Seaforth Container Terminal to Montreal's Termont Terminal with the MSC Brianna.

They were followed by CMA CGM and China Shipping with the CMA CGM Jefferson calling on Liverpool before crossing the Atlantic for New York, Baltimore, Norfolk and Charleston.

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That would be a hugely significant development but I've not heard mention of it before. What's your source for it, if you don't mind me asking?

Peel Holdings. The main part is that the largest ships will be on the river side of the dock wall not having to enter locks. Extra large locks directly into Seaforth so that ships can enter and exit irrespective of tides, have been proposed but they are secondary to the river bearthing. If new locks were built, river bearthing and usage of existing Gladstone locks, access is swift in and out of the terminal, taking the largest container ships on the drawing boards.

The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has applied for a Harbour Revision Order to enable the development of an £80 million container terminal on the River Mersey. The scheme is being undertaken in anticipation of the introduction of post Panamax container ships on the North Atlantic and further expansion of Liverpool's total container trade which is now at record levels of more than 600,000 teus a year.

The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company has applied for a Harbour Revision Order to enable the development of an £80 million container terminal on the River Mersey. The scheme is being undertaken in anticipation of the introduction of post Panamax container ships on the North Atlantic and further expansion of Liverpool's total container trade which is now at record levels of more than 600,000 teus a year.

As Liverpool was centre of the UK, near the industrial heartland of the UK, an established mercantile port, of course it made sense to spend money on a fishing village out in the sticks away from the industrial heartland to make the UKs No. 1 port. Obvious isn't it? Yeah.

I meant what was the point of building a facility at Liverpool specifically aimed at attracting post-panamax and super post-panamax vessels 25 years ago? These things aren't cheap and do have to pay for themselves afterall.

No locks, as its the first river front dock, will have dredged channel. The Chester watermark- thats where i work, its a legal requirement to watermark maps put on the net, or OS would be after my head on a plate! They are a little over the top on that kind of thing. As it happens i have coverage at that scale for Liverpool and Manchester as well as Chester

No locks, as its the first river front dock, will have dredged channel.

Locks directly into Seaforth were considered and are still on the agenda but rather back burner. This is not the first riverfront berthing at all. Tranmere oil terminal, which can take quite large tankers, is tidal, and that is way up river opposite the south end docks.

No locks, as its the first river front dock, will have dredged channel. The Chester watermark- thats where i work, its a legal requirement to watermark maps put on the net, or OS would be after my head on a plate! They are a little over the top on that kind of thing. As it happens i have coverage at that scale for Liverpool and Manchester as well as Chester